Are aliens causing global warming?

Question

Which is the more plausible theory for the cause of the current global warming?

a) We're holding aliens at Area 51 and their buddies are shooting the planet with heat rays until we release them.

b) Hundreds of thousands of scientists are all in on a giant hoax, falsifying data to perpetrate a massive scam on the entire planet just so it will be a little easier for them to obtain research grants.

Answer 1

I think that its GOD with a big magnifying glass on his little ant farm, Earth, trying to cull the herd.

Answer 2

I vote for option a

Answer 3

The alien theory is not a good fit to real world data as after the date of the alleged crash of the UFO in New Mexico, the earth went into a period of cooling for a time.  

The greenhouse effect theory is also not a good fit to real world data as the earth has been warming since the end of the little ice age, well before GHG's were increased by human activity.  Also the radiation absorbed by CO2 is a very small bandwidth and the atmosphere is already virtually opaque to that bandwidth.

The history of science has shown that when there is a lack of conclusive evidence, taking a vote is not a reliable method of discovery.

Answer 4

The hoax is there is not hundreds of thousands of scientists who support the theory.  The is just an attempt to manipulate the public into support.  If all of the experts agree then you should too, and you do not have to question the science.

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckt...

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?ne...

I suggest you read the Wegman report.  It says that there is a few group of scientists who are basically writing most of the literature on climate change, and are peer reviewing each other.  

http://republicans.energycommerce.house....

Do honest scientists want to "get rid of" the MWP as David Demming testified under oath to the Senate?

http://epw.senate.gov/hearing_statements...

Then the way they went about getting rid of the MWP (see page eight.)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics...

I particularly liked this quote:

They also found that Mann et al. had excluded from their calculations a single dataset covering the later medieval warm period, which had been stored in a computer file marked “CENSORED_DATA”. McKitrick et al. ran the Mann

et al. model including the missing dataset, and again found that the medieval warm period reappeared.

Given their past behavior  why should I believe that these people are honest scientists?

Answer 5

Gotta be those aliens. I have always suspected it.

Answer 6

I like the theory, bizarre as it may sound.  And for all the speculation and investigation, all the research and probing and digging in the ground, they still haven't figured out what's up.

Sooo....your theory makes about as much sense as any of the others.

Answer 7

You're left with two choices...?  Just two choices?

There aren't any other sources of heat for the earth?  none...?

Not even the sun?  99.999% or more of the earth's heat is from the sun.

The planet gets shot with heat rays all the time.  From the sun.  But if you want to call the Sun an alien then my answer is A.

Answer 8

As usual American and UK scientist are years behind Slovak high school children who ride the short yellow bus.. It is wildly known here this green house global heating hot warming is cause by humans but not of this era.  UFO is nothing more than a fancy time machine transporting human 5 million years from the future. They cause this warming heating hot greenhouse to off set the coming massive ice age. Contrails

containing massive amounts of carbon are ways these future freakish types peoples control the green house effect.

They also gave us VHS tapes, sugar-free sweeteners and 3D-glasses that enabled us to see movies in 3D cinema..

Answer 9

WE ARE STARTING AN ICE AGE, not aliens shooting, not hoaxes.. just an ice age.

Answer 10

i'm gonna say, no.

but, good brain storming. ;)

Answer 11

A

Answer 12

Gee whiz, Dana, only those two choices? No reasonable third alternative like, maybe the scientists aren't saying what you claim they're saying? None of them, except James Hansen, says unequivocally that human activity is causing global warming, just that we likely are causing some of it.

Nobody is claiming they're falsifying the data but the bosses sure seem to do some odd things when they continually relocate temp ground stations from pristine or grassy areas to paved areas and next to parking lots. Then fail to correct for this in their temp records, despite claiming they will. Or the way they insist on using computer models rather than actual historical records of CO2 levels that show it was as high as 400 in the 1940s, and the Earth somehow failed to melt away.

If you want to believe that CO2, a gas necessary for all life is the culprit and not the very large gassy hot spot in the sky, you are entitled to that opinion. Personally I think you're wrong and that this is not at all about warming or saving the planet for those at the top, but about taking control of every aspect of the lives of everyone in the developed word. There's no better way than to say any carbon emission must be monitored, you'll need permission to drive your car or turn on a flashlight and I'm not willing to let that happen without some more debate.

Answer 13

I don't think that either is likely.  

Scientists are generally competitive, so the idea of more than a handful, say 19, in on a conspiracy is absurd.  Most scientists work in several areas during their careers, so the idea of any dependency on research grants tied to a particular topic is wrong.  I currently hold research grants on four different topics and I am working on two more for next year at present.

As for Area 51, maybe there is some nugget of truth in the Drake equation.  Aliens have three problems: finding earth , getting here, and heating the earth without leaving clues of their presence.  Even aliens are constrained by the laws of physics.  Where is their energy source and why have we not detected the their rays?

Perhaps we should invoke Ocam's razor and accept the simplest explanation that human emissions of greenhouse gasses are mainly responsible for global warming.

Answer 14

THE SUN IS GETTING HOTTER AS IS MARS AND VENUS, AND 12 21 2012 IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER.

Answer 15

ooh great ideas! Now we can all do nothing! I love a good excuse to continue my excessive consumer lifestyle!

Excuse me, I have to go. I have to drive my hummer to the local Starbucks drive through. Its only a block, but hey. And I'm going to leave my lights on and my water running, and idle my minivan in the driveway just for kicks. Later I'm going to spread Round up on my lawn, run my dishwasher with one plate in it, and then watch some "reality tv". Idol's on tonight. I'm so much happier now that I don't have to worry. Soma!

Answer 16

No it is Al Gore.

Answer 17

I would say that B) is plausible.

Grants do not grow on trees, so scientists have to make their data more, lets say, interesting.

Answer 18

B is ture and it is proven fact.

Answer 19

You are funny .

The descendent's of Aliens are certainly helping global warming

and 2 scientist already means an argument

Imagine thousand working together cooking something up

This is totally impossible.

Answer 20

a) would seem the most believable there is even some further evidence all those experiments they do on cows is to find a way to make them produce more methane so we will let the captured aliens go!

Viva La ET

Answer 21

A.

Have you seen all the ads and commercials for "Eco-friendly" products. Come on AGW if huge companies can afford to make Eco-friendly products, something must be going on. And plus where is the proof that global warming is false?

Answer 22

Hmmm...I think a...

;-)

Answer 23

no aliens are not causing this we put this on ourselves with our lack of care for the environment

Answer 24

Maybe we got to wait till fossil fuel companies finish their research to be sure ! Ha Ha

Answer 25

Aliens are creating global warming.

a. seems to be more relevant

The giant heat rays would also be magnified by the green house gases in our atmosphere.  Perhaps the sun is their giant heat ray?

Answer 26

neither i personally believe that the world is going to come to an end but not because aliens are trying to destroy it i think they created it and we are destroying it ( we as in the world's population) honestly i love all of this talk about what people believe about "The Beginning Of The End Of The World" there are so many opinions  and hypothesis' but no honest facts leading to what is really going to happen.

Answer 27

hmmmm...let me think....hmmmm....ohhh B!